About Hyper
Rebuilding video conferencing from first principles.
Every design decision at Hyper starts with a question: what would this look like if we built it today, with no legacy constraints? The answer is on-device AI, sub-75ms latency, and privacy that is enforced by architecture — not policy.
Our Mission
Video conferencing was supposed to bring people closer. Instead, most platforms have become bloated, surveillance-first middleware — uploading your conversations to the cloud, running inference on someone else's GPU, and adding latency at every hop.
We started Hyper because we believe the architecture is the product. When AI runs on your device, privacy isn't a feature — it's a guarantee. When you control the full stack from transport to rendering, sub-75ms latency isn't aspirational — it's measurable. When meetings are fast, clear, and intelligent by default, they stop being something you endure and start being something that moves work forward.
We're building the video platform we wanted to exist: private, fast, opinionated, and built to last.
Engineering Principles
What we believe
Privacy by Architecture
Your data never touches our servers. AI inference runs entirely on-device — not because of a toggle, but because the system was designed that way from day one.
On-Device Intelligence
Transcription, translation, and summarization happen on your hardware. Zero cloud round-trips means zero data exposure and measurably lower latency.
Latency is a Feature
Sub-75ms end-to-end. We treat every millisecond as a product decision — from adaptive bitrate to zero-copy rendering to our custom transport layer.
Ship with Conviction
We make opinionated choices and ship them. Small team, tight feedback loops, no design-by-committee. If something is wrong, we fix it fast.
Vertical Integration
We own the entire stack — networking, media pipeline, AI runtime, and UI. That control lets us optimize across boundaries that off-the-shelf solutions cannot.
Craft Over Convention
Every interaction is intentional. From spatial audio to squircle corners — we sweat the details others dismiss as cosmetic because quality compounds.
The Team
Small team, outsized ambition
We're a tight-knit group of engineers, designers, and builders who've shipped real-time systems at Apple, Google, Discord, and Linear. We chose to start over because we believe video deserves better.
Alex Chen
Co-founder & CEO
Previously Staff Engineer at Apple, working on FaceTime and WebRTC internals.
Jordan Park
Co-founder & CTO
Built real-time media infrastructure at Google. PhD in distributed systems from MIT.
Mira Patel
Head of AI
Former research scientist at DeepMind. Specializes in on-device inference and model compression.
Sam Okoro
Head of Engineering
Scaled real-time systems at Discord. Obsessed with P99 latency and zero-downtime deploys.
Lena Vogt
Head of Design
Led product design at Linear. Believes great software feels inevitable.
Ravi Krishnan
Head of Product
Previously PM at Figma. Thinks in systems and ships in sprints.
Chloe Dubois
Senior Platform Engineer
Built Cloudflare Workers runtime. Loves edge computing and low-level optimization.
Marcus Rivera
Senior Media Engineer
WebRTC contributor and former Twilio engineer. Knows every codec by its bitrate.
Backed By
Investors who get it
We're backed by firms that have funded the infrastructure the internet runs on — and by operators who know what it takes to ship great software at scale.
Build the future of
video with us.
We're hiring engineers, designers, and researchers who want to work on hard problems with a small team that ships fast. Remote-first, competitive equity, and no bureaucracy.